Tag Archives: Video

December 6 is the deadline to let the FCC know how you feel about even more restrictions on what you can do with digital content, specifically your ability to make copies of digital-broadcast television programs. Please see this report by CDT, Consumers Union, and Public Knowledge outlining consumer questions posed …

I am ever so pleased that the FTC went after Miss Cleo’s Psychic Douchebag Service for simply being a well-financed bunco operation: The operators of Miss Cleo’s psychic hot line agreed Thursday to cancel $500 million in customer bills to settle federal charges that the service fleeced callers while promising …

Our ace digital-service reviewing friend Brad Hill has just sized up Movielink: On Monday, November 11, the Movielink service finally rolled out a working model of its long-awaited Internet rental service. The catalog is so thin as to make this a concept opening, at best. But the service is completely …

Now, in addition to frogman, professional wrestler, politician, sports announcer, and guy with an outrageously annoying Minnesota accent, the current governor of the Gopher State – or whatever its damn nickname is – Jesse Ventura is negotiating to be a talk show host: Jesse Ventura is in talks with MSNBC …

Speaking of crushingly awful reality shows, (all of them) USA Today has the scoop on the hoops contestants must leap through just to get on each pitiful mess: Name. Address. Age. Education. Sexual fantasy. What kind of application asks for such an intimate detail? One that gets the winning hopeful …

We are still in the middle of getting moved in to our new house, and getting organized, set up, settled in, and whatnot. I spent much of last night putting together a “home entertainment center,” which means slapping together a bunch of fake wood and hoping it doesn’t collapse under …

I was wondering whether it was just my perception that there were even more (piss-poor) political commercials on TV this time around. There were: Candidates, parties and their special interest supporters spent a record $1 billion on television ads in the 2002 election cycle – double the amount spent in …

Johnny Griffith, keyboardist for Motown backup group the Funk Brothers, has died at 68. Launch reports: This news came just a few hours before the red-carpet premiere of the film about the Funk Brothers, Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham, Michigan. Griffith, 68, had …

The Hollywood Reporter says that Sony Pictures Entertainment and Deutsche Telekom’s mobile phone division have signed a multiyear deal in which Sony will deliver film-based content to T-Mobile’s cell phones: The deal, signed Monday, marks the first ever multiyear content deal between a Hollywood major and a global mobile operator. …

The movie industry seems to have taken heed of the digital debacle facing the music biz and is offering film downloads for a fee Amy Harmon writes in the NY Times: The service, called Movielink, will be the first to make a substantial number of popular Hollywood films available legally …